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    The wind nearly picked little‚ Nancy up off her feet as they entered the cave. If it had not been for John and Uriah grabbing her arms and dragging her inside‚ the wind would have siphoned her right back out the cave entrance as it seemed to do with all the air in the space. A moment later the air returned and they could breathe‚ but then they heard hellacious noises outside as the whirlwind wrecked havoc around them. The noise was deafening as it seemed to put pressure on their eardrums so that

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    An Abandoned House

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    continued to walk past the house‚ I could hear the wind whistling through the broken windows. I could see the leftovers of the curtains moving gently in the breeze and the grass swishing left and right in the wind. As I was giving the house a final look I thought I saw a silhouette of somebody beside the window gazing upon me so I started to walk a little bit faster. As I walked I wondered how much longer this house could stand up to the rain and wind before it surrendered itself to nature or would

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    2013 Short Report on Tornadoes                  Introduction             A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. A violent tornado is capable of enormous amount of destruction with wind speeds up to 300 miles per hour. The tornados can reach up to one mile wide and fifty miles long. A report I read said in an average year‚ 1‚500 tornados are reported nationwide which results in estimated 80 deaths and over 1‚500 injuries. In my short

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    ISC 1005C LAB WORKSHEET Interpreting the Weather Map OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this lab‚ the student should be able to: ✓ Identify pressure systems on weather maps ✓ Develop wind directions/circulation from a pressure pattern on a weather map ✓ Identify frontal systems on weather maps ✓ Correlate precipitation and clouds phenomena to pressure patterns and fronts. INTRODUCTION: The History behind Weather Maps Creating a daily weather map was not possible

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    the North Atlantic Region or Typhoons in the South East Asia region. However to become a TRS they have to have an average wind speed of 120mph plus. They form all along the tropical regions with the highest area receiving these storms found in south east Asia with this area in particular receiving 30% of all the worlds TRS. Tropical revolving storms

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    Theodore Fujita. This scale goes from F0 to F12; this scale was used from 1971 to 2007. Since February 2007 to the present‚ the Enhanced Fujita Scale is used‚ rating tornadoes from EF0-EF5. EF0 is winds from 65-85 miles per hour (mph) with light damage‚ broken trees‚ gutters‚ and roof surfaces. EF1 is winds from 86-110 mph with moderate damage‚ mobile homes turn over‚ loss of exterior doors‚ window‚ and other glass

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    do they provide design criteria for withstanding strong hazardous events. The primary difference in a building’s structural system when designed for use as an evacuation center or a community shelter‚ versus conventional use‚ is the magnitude of the wind forces‚ amount of rainfall and the predicted earthquakes it is designed to withstand‚ with consideration of the population in the vicinity it intends to protect. The risk assessment to identify likely threats is a prerequisite practice to certify

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    on a thunderstorm in order to appear. Compared to a hurricane‚ tornadoes are significantly less wider than hurricanes with tornadoes being a mile wide at the most‚ while hurricanes can be as wide as a whole state. The winds of a hurricane are usually much slower than a tornado’s winds because hurricanes can’t spin as fast as tornadoes. A hurricane can flood the areas

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    The Divine Wind

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    In Garry Disher’s ’The Divine Wind‚’ it sends across a strong and important message that in a time of horrific war‚ everyone loses-including the so-called ’winners’. This message is conveyed throughout the text as Hart’s mother loses her life in the surrounding circumstances of war. Hart also loses his life-long love‚ Mitsy‚ not by death but by the alienation of the Japanese. Even though Hart is labelled as a ’winner’ because he belonged to Australia‚ which was one of the allied forces. Hart still

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    Climate of Bangladesh Climate is the average weather of 30-year time period for a particular region. Climate is not the same as weather‚ but rather‚ it is the average pattern of weather for a particular region. Weather describes the short-term state of atmosphere. The Tropic of Cancer passes through the center of Bangladesh and the country’s climate can be described as tropical monsoon type - warm and humid in the summer‚ dry and cool in the winter. The dominant climatic factor for Bangladesh is

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